Bill Cotterell: Ready to secede? Let's think that over

6:43 PM,
Nov. 20, 2012

Bill Cotterell

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Bill Cotterell
Florida Voices

President Obama's re-election has prompted secession petitions to be signed by disgruntled voters in all 50 states.

In a little feel-good gesture, the White House last year set up a "We The People" page on its website. The idea is, any petition signed by 25,000 people in 30 days will be addressed by the Obama administration - not approved, just acknowledged.

Many voters wish to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War by taking another run at that whole disunion thing. In fact, Georgia and South Carolina each produced two competing secession petitions. Texas leads the movement with, late ...